Senior Consultant

Company: Virtusa
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will lead Agile teams delivering cloud-native solutions on AWS. You will coach teams in Scrum practices and act as a servant leader to enable high-performing delivery. You will collaborate with Product Owners to keep the backlog aligned with sprint goals and coordinate cross-team dependencies in a DevOps context. The role centers on optimizing cloud delivery on AWS while driving Agile maturity and transparent reporting. This is a hands-on, cross-functional position that connects cloud architecture, DevOps, and IT service management to enable reliable releases.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives)
  • Act as a servant leader, coaching teams on Agile best practices and Scrum adoption
  • Drive delivery of cloud-based solutions on AWS, aligning with sprint goals and release timelines
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to refine and prioritize the product backlog
  • Identify, track, and remove impediments affecting team progress
  • Manage cross-team dependencies in a cloud/DevOps environment
  • Track sprint progress, velocity, and other Agile metrics using Jira
  • Maintain documentation, sprint reports, and knowledge repositories in Confluence
  • Coordinate with ITSM processes using ServiceNow (incident, problem, change)
  • Support release planning and deployments in AWS environments
  • Work closely with DevOps, cloud architects, and engineering teams to ensure smooth CI/CD execution
  • Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and Agile maturity initiatives

Key requirements

  • Strong experience delivering projects in Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments
  • Good understanding of AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPC
  • Deep knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban; SAFe is a plus)
  • Hands-on expertise with Jira (backlog management, sprint tracking, dashboards)
  • Strong experience using Confluence for documentation and collaboration
  • Practical experience with ServiceNow workflows (incident, change, problem management)
  • Experience working with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments
  • Strong analytical skills to interpret Agile metrics and improve team performance
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
  • communication
  • facilitation
  • stakeholder management
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • ServiceNow

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Posted: October 16th, 2026